I didn't add myself to the wheel. Logged in as a normal user, got stuck in a console where I couldn't shutdown my computer or change to root....then pulled the plug on my machine....did the exact same thing again...................... And not once did I think to type logout

If you just wanted to shut down the computer you should usually be able to hit the power switch which'll trigger the ACPI event for sending it into a normal shutdown sequence.

Doesn't work on my comp...I tried that first...then decided to crawl under my desk and unplug it

New machine, new job, brand new Gentoo install. The last thing I always think about is the sound card. So after a day configuring and compiling I decided to test out the sound card. I had no mp3s or cds so I decided to listen to a little static.

in 98 i did rm -rf / as root cus i was wondering if u actually could or if there was a security mechanism in place to prevent it_________________
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Wow. I've done it, but it created a near obsessive compulsion to make sure I have my keys with me before leaving. If a door is about to close and I think I've forgotten to check, a tiny wave of panic sets in for a brief moment while I see if I have my keys._________________lolgov. 'cause where we're going, you don't have civil liberties.

When I'm going out, I'm almost always carrying a lot of stuff like helmet, backpack, keys to my motorcycle, gloves and lot more. By the time I reach the door I'm feeling smug that I carried all of my stuff with me.

The panic and all other checks sets in immediately after I close the door. D'ooooooooh!!_________________There is no guarantee a stupid Dalai Lama won’t come next -- Dalai Lama

During the week-end, I decided to remove windows on my netbook and put some flavor of linux on it. The last one I tried was the desktop version of ubuntu (the netbook edition sucks for my use). Dumb mistake is I used the installer partitioning tool to create an extended partition. Over 100G of HD left, and it went and made the ENTIRE extended partition (/dev/sda4) 40g, as I asked it to make the volume in it 40g (sda5). Now I can't create more partitions without wiping my install._________________Someone asked me once if I suffered from mental illness. I told him I enjoyed every second of it.
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During the week-end, I decided to remove windows on my netbook and put some flavor of linux on it. The last one I tried was the desktop version of ubuntu (the netbook edition sucks for my use). Dumb mistake is I used the installer partitioning tool to create an extended partition. Over 100G of HD left, and it went and made the ENTIRE extended partition (/dev/sda4) 40g, as I asked it to make the volume in it 40g (sda5). Now I can't create more partitions without wiping my install.

What exactley is the problem? Can't you enlarge the extended partition? In fdisk you have to "delete" it but as long as it starts in the same place and all the logical partitions have the same parameters you're fine._________________Joe Mulloy | http://twitter.com/jdmulloy | Ron Paul in 2012! | 5-1-07 | Unban Playfool | Fire your "Too big to fail" bank http://moveyourmoney.info

During the week-end, I decided to remove windows on my netbook and put some flavor of linux on it. The last one I tried was the desktop version of ubuntu (the netbook edition sucks for my use). Dumb mistake is I used the installer partitioning tool to create an extended partition. Over 100G of HD left, and it went and made the ENTIRE extended partition (/dev/sda4) 40g, as I asked it to make the volume in it 40g (sda5). Now I can't create more partitions without wiping my install.

What exactley is the problem? Can't you enlarge the extended partition? In fdisk you have to "delete" it but as long as it starts in the same place and all the logical partitions have the same parameters you're fine.

Guess I'll give that a try._________________Someone asked me once if I suffered from mental illness. I told him I enjoyed every second of it.
www.madchaz.com A small candle of a website. As my lab specs on it.

Trusting a contractor when he says he has routed all secondary power cables to the backup UPS only to see all lights on the SAN die after happily flipping the switch on the faulty UPS off and all of this during work hours ... ouch !! _________________http://www.di.fm/trance

Trusting a contractor when he says he has routed all secondary power cables to the backup UPS only to see all lights on the SAN die after happily flipping the switch on the faulty UPS off and all of this during work hours ... ouch !!

Trusting a contractor when he says he has routed all secondary power cables to the backup UPS only to see all lights on the SAN die after happily flipping the switch on the faulty UPS off and all of this during work hours ... ouch !!

Holy shit, that must have been fun to explain...

Yup and to make things worse I sent an email out prior to work commencing saying there will only be a minor "degradation in performance" ... damn outage took out all 150 users and server access for 10 mins. It took the CEO only 2 mins to get to my door ... but luckily its a one off event and i'm on good terms with management _________________http://www.di.fm/trance

Ouch. But I sure wouldn't have wanted to be the contractor once you explained the situation.

Another epic fail.

Sending an email to my main client, from a personal account, that was meant for fiction I intended to write about work.
I'm lucky he agreed to forget he ever saw it ..._________________Someone asked me once if I suffered from mental illness. I told him I enjoyed every second of it.
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Trusting a contractor when he says he has routed all secondary power cables to the backup UPS only to see all lights on the SAN die after happily flipping the switch on the faulty UPS off and all of this during work hours ... ouch !!

Holy shit, that must have been fun to explain...

Yup and to make things worse I sent an email out prior to work commencing saying there will only be a minor "degradation in performance" ... damn outage took out all 150 users and server access for 10 mins. It took the CEO only 2 mins to get to my door ... but luckily its a one off event and i'm on good terms with management

Trust but verify? _________________Deja Moo: the feeling that you've heard this bull before

I wanted to change some file on a filesystem in a zpool in FreeBSD and did it Linux Raid like (mdadm create) "zpool create name /dev/ad20" from a live medium. Now I had two zpools with the same name and same devices, both were "kaputt".